AI Startup Suno Claims “Fair Use” Copyright Doctrine Allows Training On Major Recordings
deadline.comAI startup Suno has admitted that it uses copyrighted songs to train its AI model. But, it argues, doing so is legal under copyright law’s “fair use” doctrine.
Suno is one of two companies (Udio being the other) sued in June by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) over use of its members’ recordings.
Suno’s confession that its AI model used copyrighted songs came in a court filing. “It is no secret that the tens of millions of recordings that Suno’s model was trained on presumably included recordings whose rights are owned by the Plaintiffs in this case,” the filing states.
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman amplified that stance in a blog post today.“We train our models on medium- and high-quality music we can find on the open internet… Much of the open internet indeed contains copyrighted materials, and some of it is owned by major record labels.” Schulman said such use is viewed by Suno as “early but promising progress.
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